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Re:That time Sony installed rootkit software on thousands of... by nonfamous on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:21AM (#31098217)
TIL the CTO of Microsoft discovered the Sony rootkit.
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Re:That time Sony installed rootkit software on thousands of... by yabones on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:34PM (#31102621)
Russinovich is also the author of the Sysinternals tools, some of the most useful for problem solving on Windows machines. He also discovered a rootkit in Norton around the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich

Quite an interesting guy.

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Re:That time Sony installed rootkit software on thousands of... by iguessthislldo on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:09PM (#31099038)
Looks like he also created the sysintenal debug tools for Windows, which brought him to Microsoft after they bought them.
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